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Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated
February 12, 1870.,
Original located at the University of Vermont's Special Collections in the George
Perkins Marsh Collection, filed by date.,
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/cengpm700212 (accessed March 31, 2015)

Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated
February 12, 1870.

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James P. Tranowski andEllen Thomson

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Villa d'Elci.Feb 12, 1870.

My dear Mr. Marsh

Many thanks for your kind answers to my troublesome enquiries.

Mr Kirkup, whom I saw yesterday, told me that it was Prof d'Ancona of Pisa who was at work, or proposed to set
himself at work on Dr Paur's treatise. But I suspect that the
old Baron had turned an expression of interest into an intention of translation. The
poor old man was greatly animated in showing me the pencil head of Dante &
the autograph of his name, which -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- the Divine Poet presented him with two or three years
ago. The spelling of the signature settles the long dispute in favor of
Allighieri!

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As to the Court Ball, I am not inclined to put on a uniform, but one of my sisters
& Miss Sedgwick would like much to see the show if it be permitted to them
to take advantage of your kindness so far as to be allowed to go under your
protection. If you do not mean to attend the ball they, with their best thanks to
you for the offer to secure them -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- admission, on the whole prefer to remain at home.

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I am very glad that Hoar's pluck forced the Senate to an open
vote. But the result is a very disheartening one. So too is that in the matter of
the bill for admission of Virginia.